1. International Learning Forum Rome, 1 April 2011 More and better skills, more and better jobs – Lifelong learning and the Europe 2020 strategy Carlo Scatoli Directorate General for Education and Culture European Commission

2. 1 Europe 2020: three interlinked priorities 1.) Smart growth : developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation 2.) Sustainable growth : promoting a more efficient, greener and more competitive economy 3.) Inclusive growth : fostering a high-employment economy delivering social and territorial cohesion

3. 2 7 flagship initiatives targets Smart Growth Sustainable Growth Inclusive Growth Innovation « Innovation Union » Climate, energy and mobility « Resource efficient Europe » Employment and skills « Agenda for new skills and jobs” Education and employment « Youth on the move » Competitiveness « An industrial policy for the globalisation era » Fighting poverty « European platform against poverty » Digital society « A digital agenda for Europe »

4. 3 Flagship ‘An agenda for new skills and jobs ’ Better functioning of EU labour markets & flexicurity Right skills for right jobs Improving the quality of work and working conditions Creating jobs

5. 4 Skills gap Over 80 million adults hampered by low levels of basic skills – and transversal skills Skills people have often don’t match skills needed to get jobs Jobs becoming more knowledge- and skills- intensive: by 2020, one third of all jobs will require high-level qualifications

6. 5 Modernising education and training – key competences, higher education Support to learning and job mobility A new framework for youth employment

7. 6 Proposal for a Recommendation to promote the learning mobility of young people Proposal for a Recommendation to fight early school leaving Proposal for a Recommendation to promotion and validate non formal and informal learning Implementation of qualification frameworks Development of a European skills passport ESCO – Terminology for occupations, skills, competences Skills panorama EU2020

8. 7 Competences 2001 – Memorandum on Lifelong Learning Input based (duration, institution) 1996 –European Year of Lifelong Learning Education and training system Learners and learning process Output oriented (what learners know and can do)

9. 8 Competences 2008 – The European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning (EQF) 2009 – European Credit system for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET) 2006 – The European Framework of Key Competences for Lifelong Learning 2008 – New skills for new jobs initiative 2004 – Europass

10. 9 Lifelong learning Lifelong guidance Recognition of learning Mobility in learning and labour

11. 10 Thank you for your attention carlo.scatoli@ec.europa.eu